A Felucca Potluck

On Friday afternoon we went on a boat ride with a group from church. I love potlucks and totally ate too much. It was fun. Here's some pictures:

One More Food Post

Soon after our arrival I got a craving for French Toast. I bought the special bread (just a regular sliced loaf - that's sold in the foriegner-frequented stores) and put it in the freezer and stocked up on eggs and butter. French Toast has to have syrup, so I was determined to wait until we found some. A week or so later, I came home and Jeff had purchased a big thing of yummy, liquid maple-flavored sugar. That night was breakfast for dinner:

Culinary Endeavors

I like being home on the weekends because I get to cook. This weekend it was chicken and rice for lunch after church and a pasta salad for a potluck. I should mention that we have chicken and rice almost every weekend because it's relatively inexpensive and it's the only thing I've bothered figuring out how to make. The potluck was on the Nile - pictures of that will be posted soon!

Fortuitous Beginning

This morning when I got to the office I moved the clock to the shelf over the computer. The clock hasn't been hung on the wall yet, so I thought this might be a more visible spot than where it was before.

A few minutes later it fell on my head. The glass broke onto everything - the desk, the floor, in my coffe and my purse, and so on. The cleaning man was about to clean the office, so he helped me pick everything up.

I'm okay, but my forehead got a little scratch and I had to throw out my coffee.

Monopoly

Jeff and I made some new friends and found out they like Monopoly. That was all the excuse we needed to go to the store and buy the game we had seen the first week we arrived. We had pizza and played with Billy and Sabine. Sabine whipped us all and I think she felt a little bad about it.

I'm also experimenting with this application, Slide. Let me know what you think.

The Commute

Lately I've been bad about posting regularly. But I have repented and have decided to be more dedicated! I have been thinking about posts, however, and I have a bunch of pictures and some thoughts to share in the next few days and weeks.


First, I thought I'd share some of my commute. This is going home on the bus yesterday. The bus left school at 4:45 p.m. At this time things are actually quite calm. It's after the main rush hour so traffic is not so bad.


Leaving School:

The Future University of Egypt (FUE). This university is very near AUC, but with much better signage to direct people out to the middle of the desert. I heard that before they moved to New Cairo, it was named the Future University in Cairo, which is not such a family-friendly acronym. The architecture is quite amazing...

That's it for now - I have more video to post later!